Mars
@pscmars.bsky.social
Social media nomad.
Political Science PhD Candidate researching U.S. voting behavior related to gender & sexism.
Opinions are not reflective of or endorsed by anyone I may or may not be affiliated with.
I curse. A lot. But not in class.
Political Science PhD Candidate researching U.S. voting behavior related to gender & sexism.
Opinions are not reflective of or endorsed by anyone I may or may not be affiliated with.
I curse. A lot. But not in class.
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Mars
@pscmars.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Stronger (from the Netflix Series "We The People")
YouTube video by Janelle Monáe - Topic
youtu.be
Something to remember...
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“Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.”
Part of why we need to abolish CBP & DHS, not just ICE.
Part of why we need to abolish CBP & DHS, not just ICE.
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
“Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.”
Part of why we need to abolish CBP & DHS, not just ICE.
Part of why we need to abolish CBP & DHS, not just ICE.
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Yes indeed.
And if you think you don't have any friends who are sex assault survivors...you're wrong. They just don't trust you enough to tell you.
And if you think you don't have any friends who are sex assault survivors...you're wrong. They just don't trust you enough to tell you.
Your friends who are sex assault survivors are having a rough week.
February 1, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Yes indeed.
And if you think you don't have any friends who are sex assault survivors...you're wrong. They just don't trust you enough to tell you.
And if you think you don't have any friends who are sex assault survivors...you're wrong. They just don't trust you enough to tell you.
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Apparently roller skates are illegal in Texas & having them on you is such a crime that women are being brutally arrested & anyone filming it happening are also violently attacked? In case anyone forgot that regular cops are just as lawless as #ICEMonsters. They will never protect us.
#FilmThePolice
#FilmThePolice
#GVerse #BreakingNews Texas — Protester roughed up and arrested for having roller skates.
#Shit4Brain’s America. #FuckAbbott’s Texas.
#Shit4Brain’s America. #FuckAbbott’s Texas.
February 1, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Apparently roller skates are illegal in Texas & having them on you is such a crime that women are being brutally arrested & anyone filming it happening are also violently attacked? In case anyone forgot that regular cops are just as lawless as #ICEMonsters. They will never protect us.
#FilmThePolice
#FilmThePolice
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This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
Top Apollo Global Management executives including chief Marc Rowan held wide-ranging discussions over the firm’s tax arrangements with Jeffrey Epstein throughout the 2010s www.ft.com/content/092d...
Apollo chief Marc Rowan consulted Epstein on firm’s tax affairs
New files reveal extensive talks between disgraced financier and key decision makers at US private capital firm
www.ft.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:53 PM
This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.
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Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
January 31, 2026 at 6:52 PM
Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates:
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
“Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."
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If Joe Biden was regularly shitting himself like Trump is, Jake Tapper would've had a Lord of the Rings epic on presidential mental fitness
What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?
February 1, 2026 at 8:54 PM
If Joe Biden was regularly shitting himself like Trump is, Jake Tapper would've had a Lord of the Rings epic on presidential mental fitness
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The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.
February 1, 2026 at 7:22 PM
The priest at my church got beat up at an anti-ICE protest on the peninsula this week, and when he showed up for Mass today with a black eye all the church ladies swooned like they had seen a Backstreet Boy.
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My Roman Empire is thinking about how obsessed dudes are with the Roman Empire without realizing that the reason it fell was over centralized power in the hands of incompetent emperors.
February 1, 2026 at 5:05 PM
My Roman Empire is thinking about how obsessed dudes are with the Roman Empire without realizing that the reason it fell was over centralized power in the hands of incompetent emperors.
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Awful lot of older white academics would would rather have a convicted pedophile as a friend than a lefty as a colleague
Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much
February 1, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Awful lot of older white academics would would rather have a convicted pedophile as a friend than a lefty as a colleague
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These are the guys governments want to hand all their citizens’ data to.
Palantir CEO Alex Karp Says the Company Exists to "Kill Enemies" Discreetly
February 1, 2026 at 2:41 PM
These are the guys governments want to hand all their citizens’ data to.
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At about 33 seconds in, as the person speaking says "than" in the fragment "… chemists are coming up with new opioids faster than [fart noise] the government has been able to keep up …"
February 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
At about 33 seconds in, as the person speaking says "than" in the fragment "… chemists are coming up with new opioids faster than [fart noise] the government has been able to keep up …"
Ok, I’d watched this with the sound off and it was obvious. But yes. You hear a “fart”, blonde snaps her head towards him, and then he starts telling everyone thanks and get out. Staff start herding peeps and blonde covers her mouth.
February 1, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Ok, I’d watched this with the sound off and it was obvious. But yes. You hear a “fart”, blonde snaps her head towards him, and then he starts telling everyone thanks and get out. Staff start herding peeps and blonde covers her mouth.
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No one should tolerate this in a free society. No one.
Federal agents shatter a grandmother's car window, tear her rotator cuff, and throw her to the ground. After they dump out her purse and discover her US passport, they drive off, leaving her with a concussion and bruised ribs
U.S. citizen injured by federal agents in Salem who demanded to see “papers,” union says - Salem Reporter
A home care worker and union worker was pulled from her car and injured by federal agents Thursday according to a statement by SEIU 503. To comment on this story, use the form at the end of the repor...
www.salemreporter.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
No one should tolerate this in a free society. No one.
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Another Kavanagh stop. Weep for our Republic.
"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..."
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...
February 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Another Kavanagh stop. Weep for our Republic.
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Josh Shapiro patterned his whole speaking style after Obama, successfully became a popular purple state governor, and his national political rollout is going about as well as Ron DeSantis
Confused as to how Josh Shapiro thinks it is appropriate to compare student protestors to the KKK but inappropriate to compare ICE to the Gestapo
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Josh Shapiro patterned his whole speaking style after Obama, successfully became a popular purple state governor, and his national political rollout is going about as well as Ron DeSantis
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For those objecting to comparisons between Germany then & the U.S. now:
“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.”
“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.”
'Reminds me of Anne Frank': Jewish seniors are offering to hide their Haitian caregivers as Trump's TPS end looms - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The end of Temporary Protected Status has Holocaust survivors offering to hide Haitian staffers, according to the CEO of a senior-living center in Florida.
www.jta.org
January 31, 2026 at 3:42 PM
For those objecting to comparisons between Germany then & the U.S. now:
“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.”
“About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.”
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If it’s impossible for them to get judicial warrants for everyone they want to arrest, but the constitution REQUIRES it, maybe that’s a big flashing sign that they SHOULD NOT BE DOING THIS EVIL SHIT.
BASH: Wouldn't ICE wearing body cameras help with what you're describing?
RON JOHNSON: I don't have a problem with that personally, but that's not what I heard what Democrats were demanding. Their primary demand was judicial warrants, which is completely unacceptable.
RON JOHNSON: I don't have a problem with that personally, but that's not what I heard what Democrats were demanding. Their primary demand was judicial warrants, which is completely unacceptable.
February 1, 2026 at 9:01 PM
If it’s impossible for them to get judicial warrants for everyone they want to arrest, but the constitution REQUIRES it, maybe that’s a big flashing sign that they SHOULD NOT BE DOING THIS EVIL SHIT.
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Beyond shameful. What else is happening behind those locked doors?
“You are good to go.” Good to go?!?!
This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.
Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
This is what ICE tells a young woman they tossed out into dangerously freezing temperatures after four agonizing days in detention at Whipple.
Today’s front page Strib report: www.startribune.com/no-humanity-...
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Beyond shameful. What else is happening behind those locked doors?
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Chomsky is abhorrent. From the Epstein files: “hysteria that has developed around the abuse of women” & media strategy advice for Epstein
February 1, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Chomsky is abhorrent. From the Epstein files: “hysteria that has developed around the abuse of women” & media strategy advice for Epstein
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There are no “very special boys” in academia, politics, media, or any other field. If they’re shit, they’re gone.
February 1, 2026 at 5:57 PM
There are no “very special boys” in academia, politics, media, or any other field. If they’re shit, they’re gone.
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No, we don’t “need” him, in any capacity. There are a thousand intellectuals & activists who say & do & innovate for good who aren’t horrific perps or enablers.
Chomsky is abhorrent. From the Epstein files: “hysteria that has developed around the abuse of women” & media strategy advice for Epstein
Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky
February 1, 2026 at 5:52 PM
No, we don’t “need” him, in any capacity. There are a thousand intellectuals & activists who say & do & innovate for good who aren’t horrific perps or enablers.
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It’s not just Minneapolis either. Two men were snatched off of my block late last year, both eventually released because their detention was wrongful, but one of them was shipped out to the middle of Virginia for five days.
So you can start with my street.
So you can start with my street.
Cities should start renaming streets after citizens, legal asylum seekers, and others wrongfully detained (or murdered) by DHS until no one can ignore what is happening anymore
February 1, 2026 at 5:58 PM
It’s not just Minneapolis either. Two men were snatched off of my block late last year, both eventually released because their detention was wrongful, but one of them was shipped out to the middle of Virginia for five days.
So you can start with my street.
So you can start with my street.
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what if the whole country was Uvalde
If there comes a day when police put their bodies between the feds with guns and their targets, I will praise the police for doing so. I don’t expect to see that day. It might even be a dangerous escalation. But until that day comes … I assume they are helping the feds.
February 1, 2026 at 5:11 PM
what if the whole country was Uvalde
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There is so much corruption in this one story. Not even mentioned in the summary, the $500M investment in World Liberty Financial came before the UAE won access to U.S. AI chips
In the days before the presidential inauguration, an Emirati sheikh paid $187 million to entities controlled by Donald Trump’s family to take a major stake in one of the president’s crypto companies, World Liberty Financial.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
www.wsj.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:34 PM
There is so much corruption in this one story. Not even mentioned in the summary, the $500M investment in World Liberty Financial came before the UAE won access to U.S. AI chips
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I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
Minneapolis’ Hotel Workers Are on Edge
Staff across the city told NOTUS how their lives have changed since the start of the federal immigration operation. “It's frightening,” one said.
www.notus.org
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 PM
I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff.
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...
They're afraid.
One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.”
@notus.com:
www.notus.org/immigration/...